To effectively ride a skatepark, you will need to be able to drop in. Dropping in on a quarter seems like a very simple trick. But to do it the right way, you need basic bike control and you need to have the technique down. Here’s the best tip for dropping in on a BMX Bike.
Back Story
This brings me PTSD when you ask about dropping in. In high school, I had a good friend, who got a BMX bike to get into riding with me. He eventually got to the point where he was pretty comfortable on the bike. So he wanted to drop in and I gave him some advice and boom.
He dropped in a broke his wrist. I felt terrible, so maybe you don’t even want me to give you advice. But if you do… here we go.
Start Small
My biggest tip is to start on something mellow and start on something small so if you have a steep bank not an actual quarter a steep bank roll alongside it and pretend like you’re dropping in. Really be deliberate when dropping in on the bank and don’t just roll down it. Act as if you’re really dropping in a quarter. Next, move to a steeper bank and do the same thing until you are ready to drop on a mellow quarter.
To drop into a quarter you will cruise along parallel with the coping, carve into the coping, lift your front tire up and shift your weight back so you don’t go too far forward and then you pop your back tire in while leaning into the quarter.
Do the same thing on the bank. right roll along the bank, pop your front tire in, pop your back tire in, and lean into the bank. The lean is obviously not going to be as steep as it is when you’re dropping into a quarter, but it’s a good place to start.
so the biggest advice is going to be to start small and when you’re starting small really focus on the fundamentals over-exaggerate it. You can roll straight down a bank… and you can roll down a really mellow quarter. But that’s not going to help you drop in it’s going to just help you roll down a bank which is no good. Start small and exaggerate the motions so that your body has an understanding of what you need to do and that muscle memory can kick in when you do it on the bigger quarters.
